BAMELIN!

Spill the beans on Sony astroturfing on GAF, Mr. Bitch approved PlayStation MVP.
It was a volunteer program. It just so happens I'm slick with words. I linked GAF staff with the community manager, the tag was history.
With that said I was emailing them a shitload of GAF threads regarding Sony. The Community managers and Boyles were all awesome. But in the end I was just a peon in the wheel.
Didn't you feel cheap and disgusting afterwards?
To be VERY clear Sony gave me nothing. No info, no shit to drop on GAF, NOTHING. My background at the time, I was doing reviews for an Xbox360 site. Flights to LA, San Fran, all over the US. The site I worked with (now defunct) was on metacritics. After leaving the site in the new gen I loved the PS4. I was pissed re Microsofts apparent move to online microtransactions via online bullshit so I jumped trains.
With that said Sony never gave me inside scoops ... all I was doing was let them know about threads that directly affected the brand. And I did it free, without them asking, out of love for the direction they were heading. At the start of this gen Sony was doing shit right. I linked with their community team, and tried to represent them on GAF.
Edit: to give sony credit they DID care what GAF was saying imho.
Right you did it for free and for nothing in return. That is damn cheap and disgusting. I feel dirty for just asking.
At the Time I was a true believer. Even sold all my 360 stuff ... I was pissed as were many of usof their online plan for the xbox1.
But yeah the mvp program was for true believers, of which at the time I was one of them. I believed in their product direction, believed that their direction was a much better future than the microtransaction online horror offered by Microsoft.
Was I wrong? We beat back the online only future by another 5 years,
But it's coming, shit it's coming.